Billy stretched and yawned, his withered neck taut again for a few seconds. "I can feel the season changing," he said. "Drawing in. This weather change coming means the end of hot weather. Time I got out to Gaze Island and worked on me poor old father's grave. Put it off last year and the year before." Some sadness straining the words. Billy seemed stored in an envelope; the flap sometimes lifted, his flattened self sliding onto the table.
Annie ProulxYou got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. I can't make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks once or twice a year. You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.
Annie ProulxWhen the watermelons were as large as a child's head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.
Annie ProulxTags: food mistakes humorous historical
... and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.
Annie ProulxI am influenced by words and the chewiness of language
Annie ProulxThe long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.
Annie ProulxTags: the-shipping-news
All the complex wires of life were stripped out and he could see the structure of life. Nothing but rock and sea, the tiny figures of humans and animals against them for a brief time.
Annie ProulxTags: the-shipping-news
The tide was still on the ebb in that complex swell and fall of water against land, as though a great heart in the centre of the earth beat but twice a day.
Annie ProulxTags: the-shipping-news
You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie ProulxTags: the-shipping-news
The past bubbled out of his black mouth.
Annie ProulxTags: the-shipping-news
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